μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

King's daughter deceives king by substituting her maid.

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Humiliated or baffled lovers. · view the constellation · filed as K1223.5

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Mistress deceives lover with a substitute.

Filed beside it
Bride escapes from foolish husband and leaves goat as substitute in bed Mistress sends man's own wife as substitute without his knowledge Wife (mistress) substitutes for mistress (wife). The woman has been asked for a rendezvous. She tells the suitor's wife and they exchange places Chaste woman substitutes corpse for herself in the bed of an insistent suitor

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